... ) but was unable to make it.*** In May 1983 the Apostolic Pro-Nuncio, Mgr.Bruno Heim, accused CND of being "useful idiots" and of "consciously sharing the Soviet aggressiveness and ideology". It was later admitted that Heim had been in correspondence with Edward Leigh, and that Francis Holihan had sent him and other Vatican envoys around the world material on Mgr Bruce Kent. (Guardian 3rd May 1983). The action backfired though, as Cardinal Hume disliked the 'smear' tactics and was particularly annoyed because Heim had been instrumental in obtaining Hume's appointment. Holihan left CPS and formed Catholics Against The Freeze. It was also admitted that Holihan had organised aerial ...

... what the relationship of this UFO phenomenon might be to it. In an interview (7) on 14 July 2001, Sheehan said that he had been introduced to Marcia Smith by a mutual acquaintance. Smith asked him in his role as General Counsel to the United States Jesuit Headquarters, if he could get access to the section of the Vatican library in Rome that would contain information about UFOs. Sheehan asked and the request was denied; and turned down again even when he explained to them that he was asking on behalf of the US Congressional Research staff, and they were responding to a request for information from the President. Smith then told him that people in the Jack ...

... of post-war ultra-right recruitment stem from the World War 2 period and its immediate aftermath, and include such developments as: the alliance between American intelligence and various organized crime syndicates (which began in 1942) (52); the exfiltration of thousands of Nazi war criminals and collaborators from Europe by US Army counterintelligence officers and pro-Axis factions within the Vatican (53); and the subsequent recruitment of Axis intelligence and security personnel by several Western secret services at war's end.(54) The latter specifically set the pattern for the post-war recruitment of new generations of right-wing extremists, which has unfortunately continued up to the present day. (55) Second, the methods employed by these ...

... humanity ceased to be useful long ago. Two other books, The Holy Grail Revealed, P and L Fanthorpe (Newcastle,U.S., £5.95) and The Treasure Maps of Rennes, Stanley James (Seven Lights, US, £9.95) concentrate on the 'buried treasure' theory concerning Abbe Sauniere who was paid millions by the Vatican after he unearthed some ancient coded scrolls in his church which may have led him to Visigoth gold. Both books add little in the way of new and solid information. David Black Notes Someone may have already dug. Wood doesn't mention it, but there is an old mine marked on the map just a few hundred yards from the ...

... Sindona, the book reveals the vast sums of money that he laundered for his friends and allies, including the equivalent of hundreds of millions of dollars for the Christian Democrats (some of which was provided by the CIA), and similar sums for the Mafia- in the main, profits from the heroin trade. As expected, the Vatican, the SID (Italian secret police), generals, judges and politicians also feature in this book (including some interesting Nixon connections). Another very interesting claim that Di Fonzo repeats is that made by Aldo Moro's widow to the effect that the CIA were behind the Red Brigades' kidnapping and killing of Moro (anything to keep ...

... first Freedom Award in 1975 to Chilean junta leader, General Pinochet. Meanwhile, at least since 1975, Bosch was drawing money and a false passport supplied by DINA, whose national security advisor, Walter Rauff, was a Nazi war criminal wanted for the murder of 97,000 Jews in gassing vans. Rauff, who escaped via the Vatican monasteries of Bishop Hudal in 1947, became a leading representative of the Skorzeny network in Chile. (108) In late 1974, junta Ambassador Julio Duran, a long-time CIA contact and organiser of Patria Y Libertad, appeared at a Miami Cuban rally organised by Sepulveda's contact Ramiro de la Fe Perez. (109) One year later ...

... and the drive by Germany and the Papacy to get diplomatic recognition for Croatia. The April mail-shot from The Keys of Peter-- an eccentric but entertaining mixture of high Catholicism, anti-Masonic thought and conspiracy thories-- contains one of the truly great rewrites of an author's intentions. Of the Aarons and Loftus book about the collaboration between the Vatican and Axis war criminals, Keys editor Ronald King says: 'A topical book dealing with the Vatican's diplomatic efforts to defend Croatia and Slovenia from Nazism and Communism in the 1940s and 1950s, and how those efforts were subverted by the US and British governments.' Mr King, that is awesome. Last| Contents| Next ...

... about 50 former S.S. and Gestapo men, many of them recruited from Argentina and neighbouring countries by Skorzeny's Nazi colleague in Buenos Aires, Colonel Hans-Ulrich Rudel. Among these was the chief post-war theorist of Nazism in Latin America, Peron's friend, Johannes von Leers, a wanted war criminal who, like Rudel, had escaped to Argentina with Vatican help. After the fall of Peron, Von Leers temporarily left his Argentina Nazi paper Der Weg and, under the alias of Omar Amin, directed Nasser's propaganda against Israel. His assistant in this work was another former member of Goebbels' propaganda ministry, Dr. Gerhardt Harmut von Schubert, who later moved on to a similar task ...

... Churchill supp orted the latter against the advice of the Foreign Office. The idea was actually broached to Molotov who opposed it as anti-Soviet, and it was formally knocked on the head when the United States swung round to the Soviet view. The scheme, or a similar one, continued a ghostly, post-war existence for a while. The Vatican supported it. There was an active branch of Intermarium in Rome and senior Vatican priests and bishops became officers of the organisation. Intermarium was one of the first organisations to campaign openly for freedom for Waffen-SS PoWs. Many Intermarium leaders relocated to Rome after the French influence declined in 1946, subsequently transferring their loyalties to the United States, ...

... reveal- a propagandist who relies heavily and uncritically on information supplied to her by confidential Western intelligence sources. See O'Brien pp. 29-30. James Adams (1986) p. 3 recounts a possibly apocryphal story that a DDI of the CIA claimed that Sterling's book was 'largely a product of the CIA's disinformation department'. Slugenov is a right-wing Vatican priest who published his first full-length book on the papal assassination attempt in 1982. In that work, he partly based his conspiratorial argument that the KGB trained Agca and ordered the Papal shooting on an Italian military intelligence (SISMI) document dated 19 May 1981, which seems to have been a forgery since it was rejected as evidence by ...